Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,751 5,417 7,056
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.67% 22.76% 19.31%
As % of the General category 34.49% 35.54% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,985 3,612 4,927
10th Percentile £356 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £440 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 95 234
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.33 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.56 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £38.11 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +41.31% -3.61%
75th Percentile £54.11 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £54.00
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £41.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -38.84% +52.02% -10.10%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,472 15,240 21,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.13% 64.03% 57.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,830 9,879 13,642
10th Percentile £312 £285 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,521 667 1,801
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% -9.58% -6.25%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.40 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.49% -8.67% -7.69%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London 0 4,689 £575 -8.00% 2,964
North of England +3 1,185 £492 +3.58% 771
South East 0 647 £500 -3.61% 854
North West +5 623 £465 - 450
Midlands 0 592 £492 +3.58% 456
Yorkshire +1 523 £525 +10.53% 254
West Midlands 0 402 £500 -4.76% 259
South West -2 357 £525 - 302
East of England +3 203 £513 -10.87% 221
East Midlands 0 186 £465 +5.08% 196
North East -14 40 £488 +4.84% 76
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 286 (3.69%) Confluence
2 200 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 54 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 43 (0.55%) Apache
7 26 (0.34%) SAS
8 22 (0.28%) CMS
9 20 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 16 (0.21%) CICS
11 14 (0.18%) Appian
12 13 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 12 (0.15%) IIS
14 11 (0.14%) Camunda
14 11 (0.14%) Mendix
15 10 (0.13%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
16 9 (0.12%) Ethereum
17 8 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 6 (0.077%) TPMS
Applications
1 445 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 188 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 154 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 114 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 43 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.090%) Notion
8 7 (0.090%) Trello
9 4 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.039%) Sketch
11 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.026%) InVision
11 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 278 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 101 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
4 88 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 83 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 63 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
7 55 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
8 51 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
9 37 (0.48%) SAP FI
10 35 (0.45%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
11 34 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
12 32 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
12 32 (0.41%) SAP CO
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 25 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
16 23 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.30%) Workday HCM
17 22 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (15.65%) Azure
2 886 (11.43%) AWS
3 538 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 357 (4.61%) GCP
5 270 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
6 268 (3.46%) SaaS
7 247 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.67%) GitHub
9 203 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
10 146 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 140 (1.81%) Snowflake
12 127 (1.64%) Serverless
13 102 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 101 (1.30%) OCI
15 100 (1.29%) Amazon S3
16 90 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
17 80 (1.03%) OpenShift
18 73 (0.94%) dbt
19 72 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 72 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 135 (1.74%) Firewall
2 107 (1.38%) Network Security
3 63 (0.81%) DNS
4 60 (0.77%) VPN
5 56 (0.72%) WAN
6 50 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.45%) BGP
8 33 (0.43%) LAN
9 30 (0.39%) HTTP
10 26 (0.34%) OSPF
10 26 (0.34%) SSL
11 25 (0.32%) DHCP
12 24 (0.31%) Multicast
13 23 (0.30%) MPLS
14 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
15 20 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (0.26%) VSAN
16 19 (0.25%) VLAN
17 13 (0.17%) Internet
18 12 (0.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (5.88%) Power BI
2 204 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 200 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
4 149 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 146 (1.88%) Metadata
6 129 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.64%) Tableau
8 110 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 86 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.86%) Big Data
12 64 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 40 (0.52%) Delta Lake
15 40 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 39 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (0.49%) Power Query
18 32 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 595 (7.68%) JIRA
2 181 (2.34%) Git
3 147 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.12%) GitLab
5 45 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 44 (0.57%) JUnit
7 37 (0.48%) Selenium
8 29 (0.37%) Postman
9 25 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 25 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 22 (0.28%) MLflow
10 22 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.26%) REST Assured
12 18 (0.23%) Zephyr
13 17 (0.22%) ERwin
13 17 (0.22%) Maven
14 15 (0.19%) Hudson
15 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 12 (0.15%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,249 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 1,436 (18.53%) Banking
3 1,019 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 451 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 315 (4.06%) Financial Institution
6 309 (3.99%) Legal
7 278 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 263 (3.39%) Front Office
9 250 (3.23%) Retail
10 226 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 200 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 180 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 144 (1.86%) Marketing
14 140 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 128 (1.65%) General Ledger
16 123 (1.59%) Local Government
17 122 (1.57%) Telecoms
18 120 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 119 (1.54%) Law
20 110 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,160 (14.97%) Analyst
2 845 (10.90%) Senior
3 797 (10.28%) Lead
4 788 (10.17%) Developer
5 725 (9.35%) Architect
6 611 (7.88%) Business Analyst
7 606 (7.82%) Project Manager
8 512 (6.61%) Consultant
9 302 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 263 (3.39%) Data Engineer
11 202 (2.61%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
13 177 (2.28%) Data Analyst
14 160 (2.06%) Programme Manager
15 159 (2.05%) Accountant
16 150 (1.94%) Finance Manager
17 142 (1.83%) Software Engineer
18 135 (1.74%) Java Developer
19 133 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
20 131 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (2.93%) .NET
1 227 (2.93%) Kafka
2 223 (2.88%) REST
3 197 (2.54%) React
4 172 (2.22%) Middleware
5 165 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 136 (1.75%) Spring
7 135 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 123 (1.59%) RESTful
9 98 (1.26%) Node.js
9 98 (1.26%) PySpark
10 89 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 75 (0.97%) Redux
12 73 (0.94%) OAuth
13 70 (0.90%) JSON
14 67 (0.86%) XML
15 60 (0.77%) CSS
16 59 (0.76%) Pandas
17 58 (0.75%) HTML
18 54 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 349 (4.50%) Onboarding
2 339 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 290 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 215 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 181 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 165 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 154 (1.99%) Derivative
8 143 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 133 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 133 (1.72%) Fixed Income
10 128 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 126 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 102 (1.32%) Equities
13 96 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 88 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 86 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
17 77 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 72 (0.93%) AI Agents
19 61 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 243 (3.14%) Windows
2 237 (3.06%) Linux
3 123 (1.59%) Unix
4 63 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 35 (0.45%) Solaris
7 30 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.34%) Android
9 23 (0.30%) zOS
10 17 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.19%) AIX
13 7 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.077%) VMS
14 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.052%) HPUX
16 4 (0.052%) MVS
16 4 (0.052%) SUSE
17 3 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,629 (21.02%) Agile
2 1,570 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,084 (13.99%) Migration
4 1,019 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
5 874 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 828 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 826 (10.66%) DevOps
8 784 (10.11%) CI/CD
9 780 (10.06%) ERP
10 758 (9.78%) AI
11 756 (9.75%) Analytics
12 729 (9.41%) Project Management
13 657 (8.48%) Decision-Making
14 647 (8.35%) Data Modelling
15 630 (8.13%) Roadmaps
16 629 (8.12%) Validation
17 622 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
18 597 (7.70%) User Acceptance Testing
19 553 (7.13%) Change Management
20 514 (6.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,080 (13.93%) SQL
2 927 (11.96%) Python
3 505 (6.52%) Java
4 322 (4.15%) C#
5 205 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 193 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 149 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.16%) C++
9 67 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 66 (0.85%) Go
11 59 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 56 (0.72%) Bash
13 50 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 48 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 45 (0.58%) Scala
16 39 (0.50%) VBA
17 29 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.36%) Bicep
18 28 (0.36%) R
19 27 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 661 (8.53%) Degree
2 631 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 446 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 200 (2.58%) ACCA
5 195 (2.52%) PMP
6 180 (2.32%) CIMA
7 167 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 129 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 118 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 112 (1.44%) CISSP
11 83 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 71 (0.92%) CISM
12 71 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 63 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 46 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 40 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
16 36 (0.46%) AWS Certification
17 29 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.37%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 361 (4.66%) QA
3 294 (3.79%) PMO
4 271 (3.50%) GDPR
5 153 (1.97%) NIST
6 126 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 106 (1.37%) IFRS
8 97 (1.25%) SLA
9 89 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 77 (0.99%) GRC
11 73 (0.94%) Accessibility
12 65 (0.84%) PCI DSS
13 54 (0.70%) GAAP
13 54 (0.70%) ISO 20022
14 38 (0.49%) NCSC
15 35 (0.45%) PSD2
15 35 (0.45%) SEPA
16 27 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
16 27 (0.35%) IFRS 17
17 24 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 257 (3.32%) Docker
2 144 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 50 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.37%) vSphere
5 26 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.15%) NFS
10 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.10%) GPFS
12 6 (0.077%) KVM
13 5 (0.065%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.065%) RACF
14 3 (0.039%) GridGain
14 3 (0.039%) SRDF
15 2 (0.026%) ACF2
15 2 (0.026%) HDFS
15 2 (0.026%) IAG
15 2 (0.026%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 351 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 218 (2.81%) Terraform
3 112 (1.44%) Ansible
4 75 (0.97%) Grafana
5 61 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 61 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 42 (0.54%) SCCM
7 31 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.23%) vRealize
9 17 (0.22%) Control-M
9 17 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
11 13 (0.17%) Puppet
12 12 (0.15%) Argo
12 12 (0.15%) CASB
12 12 (0.15%) Nessus
13 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.10%) Kiali
14 8 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,006 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 653 (8.42%) Oracle
3 641 (8.27%) SAP
4 278 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 221 (2.85%) Databricks
6 181 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 158 (2.04%) Google
8 122 (1.57%) Workday
9 111 (1.43%) Splunk
10 103 (1.33%) VMware
11 93 (1.20%) Cisco
12 79 (1.02%) CyberArk
13 77 (0.99%) IBM
14 66 (0.85%) Citrix
15 56 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 51 (0.66%) Sage
17 50 (0.65%) Ariba
18 48 (0.62%) Bloomberg
18 48 (0.62%) IFS
19 46 (0.59%) Informatica
5,173 Finance jobs in England